petra cerne oven graduated at the academy of fine
arts & design in ljubljana (slovenia) and has been
working for clients, such as slovenian ministry of
culture, cultural heritage office of the republic of
slovenia, holding of the city of ljubljana, post of
slovenia, bank of slovenia, red cross and others.
for her work she has won design prizes including
the typographic excellence award from the type
directors club of new york.

after receiving an ma from the department of
typography & graphic communication at the
university of reading (uk) in 1998, she was awarded
a phd at the same department in 2004 for her thesis
titled „the development of special characters in
slavonic languages: with emphasis on the orthographic
reforms in slovenian and croatian language”.

petra presents regularly at international
conferences and has amongst others published in
eye, 2+3d, hyphen, emzin, klik, marketing
magazin, oris, ampak, art.si and delo.
she currently works with paul stiff on a research
project „the optimism of modernity” at the department
of typography & graphic communication at
reading university.